Does Puppy "automatically" look for and know to use a SWAP partition on disk when he's running from LiveCD?_________________Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs!
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Aitch,
my machine is a Pentium II 350 MHz owerklock 392 MHz, 131 MB of RAM only .
PaulBx1 - big thanks, but there's nothing like the console, Puppy started using the SWAP partition, instead of using the command swapon -a / dev/sda3 , But reluctant to use it (488kB) - Puppy is great - now all about
Conki shows the use of swaps in the subtitles is not a bar graphic.

This invocation creates a file called pupswap.swp in /var.
It is 128 Mb long (128 x 1024 = 131072). Initially, it is filled with zeros. However, mkswap marks it as swap space and swapon tells the kernel to start using it as swap space.
When you are done with it,

Code:

swapoff /var/pupswap.swp
rm /var/pupswap.swp

I believe that should work, though I haven't tried it, as I'm using virtual puppy and don't need it
I used /var as I'm not sure of your install type
- it maybe should be root...?

Better yet, see Bruce B's method here, as there seems some doubt about it, and whether puppy will create it

Aitch thanks
You're right in a previous post. The puppy is doing well from memory. SWAP is used only as really needed. Conky good, but how little Puppy uses SWAP is not visible in a graphical bar . I ran many programs (browser, java, convert mp3, photo viewer) Puppy benefited from SWAP (4%), John M. knew what he was doing, and I will not Puppy be corrected on this.

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